Jay Reatard (Matador)
The back catalogue of punk scenester Jay Reatard lists a bewildering array of releases recorded under a baffling variety of names: roughly 20 albums and 40 singles, all since 1998.
Such prolific behaviour is presumably easier if you only spend a few minutes writing and recording each song, as appears to be the case on this blink-and-you-miss-it 12-track half-hour of appealingly energetic, occasionally catchy but profoundly unoriginal power-pop.
WILL FULFORD-JONES
